Top 500 Horace Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

— Horace

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2. “Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.”

— Horace

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3. “Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”

— Horace

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4. “With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

— Horace

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5. “Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.”

— Horace

6. “Joking apart, now let us be serious.”

— Horace

7. “What’s well begun is half done.”

— Horace

8. “Be modest in speech, but excel in action.”

— Horace

9. “He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise - begin!”

— Horace

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10. “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”

— Horace

11. “Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”

— Horace

12. “When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.”

— Horace

13. “I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

— Horace

14. “Better to accept whatever happens.”

— Horace

15. “Who has self-confidence will lead the rest.”

— Horace

16. “Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.”

— Horace

17. “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”

— Horace

18. “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”

— Horace

19. “Whatever you want to teach, be brief.”

— Horace

20. “I want to live, and die with you.”

— Horace

21. “In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.”

— Horace

22. “Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.”

— Horace

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23. “Once begun, A task is easy; half the work is done.”

— Horace

24. “Fidelity is the sister of justice.”

— Horace

25. “Remember to be calm in adversity.”

— Horace

26. “One cannot know everything.”

— Horace

27. “Get money first; virtue comes after.”

— Horace

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28. “That best of blessings, a contented mind.”

— Horace

29. “Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.”

— Horace

30. “Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.”

— Horace

31. “Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.”

— Horace

32. “Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”

— Horace

33. “Don’t waste the opportunity.”

— Horace

34. “Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.”

— Horace

35. “Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.”

— Horace

36. “No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.”

— Horace

37. “Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

— Horace

38. “No man is born without faults.”

— Horace

39. “Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.”

— Horace

40. “The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.”

— Horace

41. “Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.”

— Horace

42. “In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.”

— Horace

43. “A picture is a poem without words.”

— Horace

44. “Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.”

— Horace

45. “Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.”

— Horace

46. “Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.”

— Horace

47. “The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.”

— Horace

48. “Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.”

— Horace

49. “Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.”

— Horace

50. “Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.”

— Horace